Post by Earth King Sunny on Apr 20, 2007 21:00:55 GMT -5
This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporation of Ursa Minor.
More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters: Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person, Anyway?
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
This is the topic about the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a book of the same name as a major hollywood film by Touchtone pictures, a TV miniseries made by the BBC, a fictional guide on which the actual book itself is named after.
The book was written by the late Douglas Adams, a genius by any standards who invented science fiction comedy.
The film wasnt that bad but the book and the 1981 TV miniseries is quite a bit better, the book itself was spun off from a few radio dramas but Adams knew he had something so he wrote it all down.
In the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy we learn about a great many things, we learn to avoid Vogon poetry, learn about the babelfish and of course learn the answer to life, the universe and everything.
I would reccomend this book to older folks but its really fun to read.
42!
More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters: Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is This God Person, Anyway?
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
This is the topic about the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a book of the same name as a major hollywood film by Touchtone pictures, a TV miniseries made by the BBC, a fictional guide on which the actual book itself is named after.
The book was written by the late Douglas Adams, a genius by any standards who invented science fiction comedy.
The film wasnt that bad but the book and the 1981 TV miniseries is quite a bit better, the book itself was spun off from a few radio dramas but Adams knew he had something so he wrote it all down.
In the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy we learn about a great many things, we learn to avoid Vogon poetry, learn about the babelfish and of course learn the answer to life, the universe and everything.
I would reccomend this book to older folks but its really fun to read.
42!
